The Edge of Work

Nathan Manuel is a Workplace Strategy Leader and Co-Founder  of PM2 Consulting, a Workplace Strategy Consulting firm. After leading workplace strategy at a number of organizations including most recently at PagerDuty, Nathan has a keen sense on the designing forward thinking and intentional workplace experiences for employees and organizations. During this conversation, Nathan spoke about how organizations can effectively use office spaces to foster productivity, trust, and culture in a flexible and evolving work environmentNathan also spoke about the need for leaders to focus on outcomes rather than actions and to create an equitable and inclusive work environment, as well as his ideas for how leaders can intentionally design better workplaces for their people.LinksNathan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanmanuel/PM2 Consulting: https://pm2consultants.com/5 Questions To Optimize Your Workplace Real Estate: https://pm2consultants.squarespace.com/5-questions-to-optimize-your-workplace-0524

Sue Cantrell is the Vice President for Products and Strategy at Deloitte, and a Lead Author of the 2024 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report. Each year, Sue and her colleagues at Deloitte conduct research into what’s new and next to help their clients stay at the forefront of how the world of work is changing, and what it means for evolving human capital and talent strategies.During our conversation, Sue spoke about the theme of work in a boundaryless world, and shared some insights around key trends in the report including the importance of prioritizing human and business outcomes, the role of microcultures, and redefining productivity. Sue also spoke about the role of imagination, curiosity, and creativity, and her ideas for what leaders can do to create a better workplace for their people.Links:2024 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends.htmlSusan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanmcantrell/

Ashley Goodall is former HR executive at Cisco and Deloitte, and the author of The Problem With Change. While Ashley believes that change is important for any organization that wishes to thrive over the long term, Ashley also believes that we must be more measured and skeptical about change, and more cognizant about the impact that change has, on people and focus more on promoting stability.During our conversation, Ashley spoke about the common traps we fall into when we think and talk about change today, and the overlooked impacts change has on people and organizations, especially as it relates to their ability to not just survive, but thrive. Ashley also shared a healthier and more balanced approach to change, why he thinks it's important to see humans for their individual strengths and, and how managers and leaders can promote stability and workplaces where their people can contribute and flourish.Web: https://ashleygoodall.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygoodall/Book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ashley-goodall/the-problem-with-change/9780316560276/

Sara Dionne is the VP of Learning and Development at Comcast. In an organization with over 80,000 employees with diverse backgrounds, skills, and roles, learning plays a critical role in enabling employees to effectively do their jobs today as well as position themselves for success in growing the business in the future.During our conversation, Sara spoke about her team’s efforts to develop a comprehensive and tailored learning strategy that prioritizes personalization and experiential learning to help make employees successful.  Sara also spoke about how Comcast is thinking about skills, and how they are using skills within the organization's efforts for employee learning and development.Sara also spoke about how she, as a learning leader, works with her partners in the process of rolling out programs related to skills and learning to different parts of the organization, as well as how leaders should and can embrace building a culture of continuous learning and growth.LinksSara’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-dionne-73998b4/LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report 2024: https://learning.linkedin.com/resources/workplace-learning-report

Kim Lear is The Founder of InLay Insights, a keynote speaker, consultant, and expert on generational research. Over the past 15+ years, Kim has studied, researched and advised on topics related to generations and the implications for culture, society and the workplace. During our conversation, Kim spoke about the challenges and opportunities with understanding generational data, and how it can be effectively used to build better workplaces. Kim also shared her thoughts and observations on the changing role of the employee-employer contract, remote work, as well as some of her own findings from her own studies of Gen Z workers from the past few years. Links:Website: https://inlayinsights.com/Substack: https://kimlear.substack.com/

Jessica Kriegel, Chief Scientist at CulturePartners, discusses workplace culture trends, managing collaboration across generations, and the evolving social contract of work. Topics include shaping beliefs for effective workplace culture, navigating intergenerational dynamics, the importance of caring in workplace culture, and negotiation strategies promoting love at work.

Ashley Herd is the CEO and Founder of The Manager Method and a Co-Host of the HR Besties Podcast. A former lawyer turned HR leader, Ashley now runs a training company focused on developing effective managers and creating helpful content through multiple channels that is helpful toward managers in today’s workplace. During our conversation, Ashley spoke about her journey to founding The Manager Method, as well as some of her own management experiences that helped shaped her abilities to do this work. Ashley also shared some of what she observes are the common challenges we face in preparing managers to manage, the most common questions she gets in her DMs and her own thoughts on how we can better develop and grow managers to be effective in today’s workplaceLinksManager Method; https://www.managermethod.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyherd/Podcast: https://www.hrbesties.com/

Carina Cortez is the Chief People Officer at Cornerstone OnDemand. Throughout her career as a People and HR leader, Carina has been an advocate and supporter of career development and mobility programs throughout her career. During our conversation, Carina spoke about what she’s seeing with how career development is changing and why it is a business imperative to invest in career development and talent mobility strategies today. Carina also spoke about examples of programs that she has run and she has seen work well inside organizations, the challenges that sometimes get in the way, as well as the importance and critical role that people manager’s play in fostering career development for employees inside organizations.Links:Carina’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carinacortez/ 

Author and former talent executive, Andre’ Martin, discusses the importance of matching employee talents with roles, the challenges in the modern workplace, recognizing diverse talents, navigating wrong fit jobs, and reimagining employer branding for better talent fit.

Rob Sadow is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scoop Technologies, a software company that helps organizations use data and insights to build workplace strategies. With a vast array of data and insights, Rob and his team have a keen pulse on the state of the workplace, and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. During our conversation, Rob spoke to us about some of the insights and trends they’ve collected at Scoop through their own data and analysis as well as Rob’s own conversations with leaders who are developing workplace policies and strategies. Rob also spoke about topics related to the workplace that don’t always make the headlines, the changing nature of how employees’ view their relationship with work, and the importance of leaders focusing on outcomes.Links:Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-sadow/Websites:Scoop: https://www.scoopforwork.com/Flex Index: https://flex.scoopforwork.comNewsletter: https://flexindex.substack.com/Q1 Report: https://flexindex.substack.com/p/surprising-new-data-on-employee-sentiment